Some interesting posts from the blogosphere today:

Senator Evan Bayh, writing at the Huffington Post,  offers a rebuttal to Republican claims that Democrats are not trustworhty on National Security issues:

Karl Rove has claimed that Democrats are too weak to defend the nation, that President Bush is simply tougher. Tough is good, but six years into the Bush Presidency it is clear that tough is not enough.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

AJ Strata takes issue with some of the FISA Court judges who have been critical of Bush's NSA surveillance program:

Folks, the military is not going to ask FISA to monitor, capture and search terrorists overseas. Not going to happen. What will result is the re-establishment of ‘The Wall’ because NSA will simply go back to not passing leads to the FBI. FISA and its idiotic defenders are REPEATING the pre 9-11 mistakes by making FISA something to avoid instead of a tool for our defense and our freedoms. 

Kevin Drum, on the other hand, has some questions "for anyone who thinks the Fourth Amendment is obsolete."

Andy McCarthy reacts to the tentative Senate agreement reached on the Patriot Act: "This is a very good deal."

And Michael Barone passes on some words of wisdom from reporter/blogger Michael Yon, who has returned from Iraq after spending most of last year there:

"Don't go out in a vehicle with dirty windows," he says. He found that soldiers who didn't keep their windows clean were also careless and not sufficiently alert to possible threats. Soldiers who kept their windows clean, on the other hand, were terrific.

Barone relates this theory to the crime control measures used to clean up New York City in the 1990s.

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